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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
– Samuel Adams, 1776
Approximately forty thousand Loyalists left the United States for Canada during the American Revolution. Some left voluntarily, others were forced out.
Most Americans have forgotten that they were our countrymen.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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